Gucci inspired vintage dress

Hi there-I know I'm not the only one to be inspired by Guccis Fall Collection (picture from Style.com), I'm loving the colours of their dresses and wanted to be able to source something similiar.

When shopping yesterday, I came across this vintage 70s dress in the St Francis Hospice for £2.50 and immediately thought the colours were so similiar to Gucci's dresses this season!

I will wear it with black opaque tights and black ankle boots or my black and gold studded Giles Deacon for New Look sandals.

I will also wear it with a black and gold belt too, a la Gucci style!!

My August purchase

About 3 Saturdays ago, I went to the Wanstead Rugby Club boot sale and stumbled across this little beauty. Its a lovely size, more big than small and has 3 main compartments, a front compartment and an adjustable length shoulder strap.

The bag is from the Gucci Accessories Collection and has the paper certificate under the serial number-its very fragile, so I have to be careful whilst using the bag.

This is such a gorgeous bag and its having its first outing today as I'm going into town to do a spot of shopping-have a great weekend everyone!!

Blogger Award

The lovely tupersonalshopperviajero has nominated me for the award above, thanks so much my dear-so kind of you and I now pass it on to the following eight bloggers:

Debs Country Kisses

Ellie

Fashoenista-Cheryl Lynn

Kate-Make Do and Mend

Alice-Ogni Cosa Bella e Viola

Cate-Retro LifeStyle

Lenya-The Fashion Loving Stylist

Sydney Speel-Sydney Speaks

All of these lovely ladies take time out whenever possible to leave me lovely comments and I'm happy to pass this award onto them! All they need to do is to leave the following message on their post when they pass the award on to their chosen eight bloggers:

They all are charmed with the blogs, where in the majority of its aims are to show the marvels and to do friendship; there are persons who are not interested when we give them a prize and then they help to cut these bows; do we want that they are cut or that they propagate? Then let's try to give more attention to them! So with this prize we must deliver it to 8 bloggers that in turn must make the same thing and put this text.

No But, Yeah But- Having a Vicky moment

What am I like!! I'm having a Vicky moment, as in 'Yeah, but-I'll keep it, No, but- it can be donated back to the charity shop'. I had to go and get Robert some new trainers for school, so of course I detoured via the charity shop to see if I could thrift a black leather jacket.

Well, I do tend to find most things at the Salvation Army and this was for sale at £3.49!! To be honest, I was more impressed by the price-less than Vogue or Elle or a Big Mac meal even!

So the pros-its in good clean condition, it is a perfect fit, its fairly thick for Autumn-not too flimsy, it was only £3.49.

The cons-It's the same style as my brown one I found last month; the leather has a matt finish-Chris has cleaned it with leather cleaner, which has made it better than what it was, but its not shiny; its not a wow jacket-I don't really know if I want a wow jacket or not though!

I shall keep it for the time being-it wasn't a waste of money as I've paid £3.49 to a charity.

Marthas Closet-Vintage Coats for Autumn and Winter

70s tan leather coat, £40

Here are some gorgeous vintage offerings from Marthas Closet, ideal for winter. Click on my link to visit their site for other vintage goodies

50s lambswool jacket, £39

70s black leather coat £55

70s faux fur coat, £49